I looked up gifs for therapy and this was on the first page. An apt metaphor I'm sure you'll agree: therapists like tiny rhinoceroses gently jump all over the tense muscle knots of the brain.

So, therapy is great, even if not as great as a tiny rhinoceroses, which are obviously the cure for all depression.

A couple of things about therapy though:

it's making me face up to things I've been in denial about for a very long time, and as such have gotten pretty out of hand. Clarity is great, but I still keep getting pretty overwhelmed.

it's giving me a different perspective on a lot of things that happened. Useful tools for building a better future, but also, applying them to the past makes me feel like I've often acted like a giant bag of dicks. Happens to the best of us, I'm sure, but again, a bit overwhelming when applied to so much of my life.